El Paso voters are being used over tax increases

The El Paso City Council during a budget meeting on July 29.(Photo: Aaron Montes/El Paso Times)

El Paso voters are being used

Once again, our unique City Council has found a way to insult the intelligence of the El Paso voter. Just how low will they go to have their property tax increase pass? Now they link a memorial to Walmart shooting victims to the tax proposal. Voters, you are being used and abused.

School superintendent should be elected

Certain superintendents should be fired for their detrimental misconduct in education. Superintendents and anyone else with a fancy-sounding title should have their pay reduced to a starting teacher and have all perks revoked.

There should be a complete audit to make sure there is transparency in top level education administration. The superintendent position ought to be an elected position just as the school board trustees, who must be elected. This way taxpayers can vote out rampant incompetency in top level educational administration.

I wonder why campus and central office individuals are not subject to being evaluated by teachers, support staff and custodial staff. Might be fear of being told what an incompetent job they are doing.

Criticizing the president is not hateful

It is not hateful to criticize the president's words and actions, as many of his supporters believe. One writer accuses U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, Jim Scherr and other Democrats of using hateful language to attack Trump. Really? Find one hateful word in their public statements; there are none.

Another writer says this is not the time to criticize. No, this is the time before any more innocent people are murdered.

If you are looking for examples of hateful and dehumanizing statements, look no further than President Donald Trump's Twitter account.

Time to amend the Constitution

The basic concept of the Second Amendment is protection. But this was specific for the people, as a defense against tyranny from the government. Never could have the founders even imagined that they would need to provide protection for us in the Constitution from our mentally impaired fellow citizens under the influence of racial hatred. Yet with the passing of time, it has been necessary to amend the Constitution in order for it to grow and evolve with society.

This is another one of those times!

The only way to maintain our right to bear arms while at the same time being protected by those bearing arms is to have strict regulations on purchasing them, especially those designed for combat. The debate is not about whether we have the right to purchase and carry assault weapons; but rather, who is qualified to do so.

A law requires a person to pass a visual test to obtain a driver’s license. We can conclude this law was passed after numerous complaints to Congress from the public due to accidents caused by visually impaired drivers. Well we’ve had enough mass shootings by mentally impaired citizens blinded by ignorance and racial hatred to pass new laws. It’s time for us to vote in a new Congress to get it done.